Bullet time, “dodge this,” the freeway motorcycle chase, and more.
“Is it as big as puberty?”
“Maybe life-changing,” she says.
Keanu Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity in 1999’s ‘The Matrix.'.Jasin Boland/Warner Bros.
Life-changing puberty inThe Matrix."
Two of those actors in contention wereJada Pinkett Smithand her husband,Will.
“I was going, ‘Man, this is really revolutionary.
Keanu Reeves’ Neo in the famous bullet time sequence from ‘The Matrix’.Warner Bros.
This is like Japanese anime [but in] live-action.’
It had never been done before.”
I was in."
Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity during her famous “Dodge this” moment in ‘The Matrix’.Everett Collection
“Just a reminder,” Reeves joked.
Maybe in animation," Reeves recalls.
“I thought about it for a second and was like, ‘No.'”
Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity and Randall Duk Kim as The Keymaker in ‘The Matrix Reloaded’.Everett Collection
Their only option comes off as the freeway, a place Morpheus always told Trinity was suicide to traverse.
There was a lot of pressure.
“I’m not a very experienced motorcycle rider.
But she also had a passenger and no helmet.
“And I held that for all of those days…
It was exhausting holding that mental absolute knowing that I was going to keep him alive.”
Still, it felt rewarding to have accomplished such a feat.
It’s the same way she feels now after pulling offThe Matrix Resurrections.
“I wanted to do everything that was being asked of me,” Moss says.
Watch more of Reeves and Moss’ conversation in the video above.
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